Your Questions About Movie Download Sites Legal

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Spyware? Adware? Does it really matter?…

NO! – It’s what you do not want on your PC that matters.

The spyware/adware controversy currently taking up most of the world’s IT columns is looking more and more like a Marx Brothers movie or a Christmas pantomime with the anti-spyware crowd shouting “Oh yes it is!”, while the adware/spyware producers attempt to drown them out with their own chant of “Oh no it isn’t!.” Meanwhile the lawyers fire off injunctions as the legislators attempt to define the rules of engagement and, every now and again, someone crosses the no-man’s land to join the ‘enemy’.

Confused ? You will be. It’s why they invented small print and end-user license agreements.

Any legal definition of spyware will be good for about a week. By then the producers will have made enough changes to allow their lawyers to argue that they’re now making something else. It’s already happening. Only the very worst programs will get caught in that net.

But wait a minute; let’s just step back a bit and ask ourselves a simple question… Does it really matter what you call it ?

Seriously ? I mean I know there’s a whole industry growing up around the argument and I’m sure all the people involved have families to feed and mortgages to pay. But the truth is, your PC – anybody’s PC – has a whole bunch of stuff running on it that you don’t know about and it’s not just the adware or spyware that can cause you problems.

Take right now. I’m writing this on a PC running Windows 2000; I’m using Microsoft Word to write the article and Novell GroupWise in case anyone wants to email me. So I’m using two applications and an operating system. So how many actual programs do I have running ? Answer: Thirty. That’s right, 30, as in three-zero. And that’s with a carefully cleaned system !

I’ve got antivirus update and support background tasks, a PDF print manager, device managers, service managers and, quite possibly, manager managers. They’re all using up memory and resources and, if not properly configured, could get in each other’s way and cause problems. Some even report back to the company that made them.

What any PC user really needs to know is :

What programs are running on my machine ?

What do those programs do ?

Which programs I do NOT want on my PC, any day, any time ?

Which programs I do not need running for my type of PC utilization ?
And they need all those answers in plain, easy to understand, language. “Smoothing my web access while enhancing my Internet browsing experience” doesn’t tell me anything. Telling me that a program will send information about my browsing habits to a company that will then send me related adverts in return, does. It doesn’t need to be labeled spyware, adware, malware, scumware, or any other ware as long as I know what it does and have an easy way to stop it doing it.

Ideally all this would either be on the packaging or the download page so that we could make a choice before we parted with our money or hit the download button. Sadly that isn’t the world we live in and, as ever, it will be the programs we most need to know about that will give us the least amount of information in the most confusing form.

With the legal arguments already flying thick and fast, the likelihood is that anyone producing an anti-anything program will find themselves spending most of their time in court defending a dwindling database.

Another problem with most ‘anti’ programs is that they only tell you when they’ve found something that fits the definitions they are using – which can sometimes pick up legitimate programs as well. They never give you a list of all the stuff they ignored and yet your problem could be with one of those tasks.

There will probably never be a way in which you can be totally safe and still be connected to the Internet. But you have a much better chance of avoiding malicious programs and keeping your PC running at it’s best if you know everything that’s running on it. Dentists have always recommended brushing after every meal. How about “brushing” after every Internet session especially if your children have been on it ?

Making certain types of programs illegal will certainly help as long as the laws are enforced, but deciding what’s best for your own PC and your own needs is always going to be the smart choice in the long run.

What we really want is for software vendors to supply the information we need in a language we can understand.

Maurice McElroy
© AnswersThatWork.com, July 2005.

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They’re not a fully legitimate site. They appear to base things off of torrent downloads and leave it to users to represent that what they provide isn’t copyright infringement. Only some of what they provide is clearly legal — and probably a small fraction at that.

No, you have not been legally downloading movies through their program. You’ve simply been paying somebody to facilitate your access to pirated materials. You’re responsible for what you download (and upload) through them, and you’ve been using the service inappropriately, apparently.

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Http://hulu.com/ has TV shows and some movies that you can legally watch online. There are also some sites now that charge a monthly fee for the privilege of downloading movies.

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I recommend either Limewire or Spiral Frog. They’re both free and legal. You can download Limewire for free at http://www.limewire.com/ or http://www.spiralfrog.com/ for Spiral Frog. They both work well, but Spiral Frog, you have to give a little personal info. You can easily find a movie and audio converter on Google.

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Otakuusa is a magazine for anime in united states
funimation also has on demand content for various cable companies, charter and comcast i know of, fios has the funimation channel
anime network is on demand for some charter customers
for manga ..surprisingly some libraries carry it now
your also can get cheap anime off ebay and at half price books
friends are the greatest asset .. With my friends we have done a anime exchange thing ..they give us some we give them some, i used to do that with another pal with manga.
Netflix also streams anime and with new 7.99 a month is pretty well priced.. Also they have more popular ones on dvd
www.gendou.com will allow you to download legally anime from them some choice anime are dl by donation only
www.animeftw.tv is a great high quality site which uses divx however u must register for free with site to keep it legal they sell t-shirts and u can subscribe for faster loading and no ads
www.crunchyroll.com also is a monthly fee but unlimted use
www.justdubs.net is a great site for dubbed anime u can donate to site

on cartoon network u can watch anime on saturdays on adult swim, i know naruto is on alot on disneyxd, syfy channel often has anime at various times( i’ve found gundam and others on that channel) some libraries have anime dvds or vhs…
Those whole in the wall comic book stores you might find more older anime and manga, some yu gi oh players often will be anime fans so u can meet anime friends.. Or better yet if in school say im a anime fan! Anyone else?
Www.japanaradio.com also has j-pop and j -rock streaming all day
used book and used movie stores are a great resource for cheap anime